U.S. VISANew system to reduce backlog
CHENNAI: From holding a place in the queue outside the United States Consulate here and "selling the space" to a visa-seeker for a "fee" to squatting in cyberspace on a United States visa application form, the professional squatter has come a ...

Hurricane Rita intensifies
KEY WEST (FLORIDA): Hurricane Rita grew into a Category 4 storm on Wednesday, as forecasters said its winds reached 217 kph as it churns toward landfall later this week on the Gulf Coast.  ...

India on course for whitewash
HARARE: The Indian batsmen crept into shells of stupor, Heath Streak found his thunder. But these contrasting events were pushed to the periphery late in the evening by Indian fielding, which set the visitors up for a series whitewash on the ...

Captains optimistic on eve of the draw
NEW DELHI: The centre-court looked tailor-made for Leander Paes if not his teammates, but the Swedish captain Mats Wilander suggested that his players would treat it as another grass court and get on with the business in the Davis Cup World Group ...

I was shot at in Delhi ODI: Andy Flintoff
London: England's Ashes hero Andrew Flintoff has revealed in his latest autobiography that he was shot at during a one-day international against India at the Feroze Shah Kotla ground, New Delhi on January 31, 2002 but the incident was swept under ...

`Money power dictated Delhi power privatisation'
NEW DELHI: In a severe indictment of the Delhi Government led by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit over the whole process of privatisation of the power distribution network in the Capital, the Public Accounts Committee of the Delhi Legislative ...